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Janet · 09-10-2013, 12:31 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening

In article ,
says...

But.. completely innocent people are posting to GardenBanter, not knowing
they ship the posts out to urg and then get surprised and upset when they
get attacked by urglers.

Obviously you've never looked at gardenbanter.

It tells its posters, quote: READ THE FAQ

The FAQ says

This forum is a mirror of a collection of Usenet newsgroups. Usenet
is made up of thousands of news servers all over the world. When you
post your message, it is distributed to these news servers where people
will connect to their own local news server via a News reader and be
able to read your message. Once your message is posted, even if it is
deleted from this forum, copies of your message will still exist on
other news servers around the world permanently.

When they open this 'FORUM' , THE FIRST MESSAGE ON THEIR SCREEN is

Sticky: abc for newcomers to uk.rec.gardening. Please read before
posting to this group. by sysop

IOW Every member of it who comes here in dumb ignorance, does so
because they either ignored or disobeyed explanatory messages on their
screen from gardenbanter.

we should raise the issue with
GardenBanter

I did. Have you?

Janet